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What are these "better" questions I'm supposed to be asking?

I'm still trying to figure out why asking questions affects my score at all, but what qualifies as a better question? Is it a popular question, a well-written question, a product or deal related question, or does some woot employee get to decide what a better question is?

Mostly, I want to know ... better than what?

by liss
asked 5 months ago

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A better question is one that gets more upvotes than other questions.

(Deals.woot is a community; thus the community determines things like better and worse.)

baqui63
5 months ago

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Not this? ;-)

anotherhiggins
5 months ago

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not sure but I am supposed to vote for better comments

natedogg828
5 months ago

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@anotherhiggins: Awesome. :)

liss
5 months ago

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@baqui63: Then why wouldn't I just ask a stupid question like "Why are my boobs so big?"

liss
5 months ago

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@natedogg828: Vote for this comment!

liss
5 months ago

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@liss: I'm a little ashamed, but my immediate impulse was to vote for that comment.

But I'm an enlightened man, so I won't do it.

anotherhiggins
5 months ago

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@liss:

If such a question got more (net) upvotes than others posted around the same time, then it would be a better question, by definition.

As to whether such a question would in fact be better or not, I cannot say. (My gut feeling is that it wouldn't do very well, but feel free to try it and find out.)

Note also that we'd need a link to a photo to first verify the size of your boobs. And how would we know that the boobs in the photo were in fact yours? Even if you include your face in said photo, do any of us actually know who you are?

All in all, probably not a good idea.

BTW- over the last four hours, ten questions were posted. This one has 6 votes, placing it is fifth place. Not doing all that well compared to @snapster's question about the chat tab.

baqui63
5 months ago

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You could ask things like:

-Does size matter, where anti-matter is concerned?

-Why do the paper towels at my workplace have more bark then a Sycamore tree?

-Did Ronald and Nany Reagan ever have a threesome with Bonzo?

-If a mosquito bites you on a pimple, does it swell up or deflate?

loubriccant
5 months ago

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@loubriccant:

I don't believe we communicated at all in the past, though I enjoyed your posts, like the one above and am glad that you have returned, or at least appear to have done so.

And I'm curious how you knew about the paper towels at my job...

baqui63
5 months ago

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@baqui63: @loubriccant: Nah, it's not the paper towels, it's the toilet paper.

barnabee
5 months ago

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@loubriccant: Do young people even know who the Reagans are?

liss
5 months ago

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@loubriccant
I am new here so I have never "met" you or (until recently) been introduced to your teachings...yet the lore of loubriccant runs deep through the writings of the older and more experienced Woot Collective. I am but a humble student in search of knowledge.

aksman44
5 months ago

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@liss: Two thoughts came to my mind with your Reagans' question.

1) Wouldn't this be a great question to ask? Hahaha!

2) Many probably don't. But google is their friend. :) :(

barnabee
5 months ago

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@baqui63: Thanks! I know all things about you, thanks to these cool "security" cameras I bought here a few weeks ago. You know, you really ought to get that mole checked out!

@liss: You assume that I post this stuff for the consumption of others, no?

@aksman44: Did you mean to say spore in place of lore? Anyway, you just follow me and I do the stupid thing first!

loubriccant
5 months ago

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@liss: Depends on who you call "young." I'm 24 and I know who they were. I had to Google Bonzo, though; I'm much more familiar with Ronald Reagan as a politician than as an actor.

jsfs
5 months ago

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